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FT 857d clicking noise

 

I just got an 857d and am getting to know it. One thing I have noticed is a click type noise on CW receive when you are tuned on frequency and the green receive light changes to blue. I understand the light changing to blue is to show you that you are in the centre of the passband and are on received frequency. This is a good indicator but I get this click noise that follows the CW when the light switches to blue. It's this normal for these rigs??

Thanks?
73 Don ve3ids?
 

I seem to have found my answer. I did the Mars mod to get 60 metres. In Canada we have a little band around channel 3 as well as the 5 channels and CW as well. The original memory channels are only the 5 channels and USB only. After doing the master reset, the odd clicking noise is gone. It must have been some setting that was done in the past.?

73 Don ve3ids?
 

??A bug in the firmware, I would think. Thank you for sharing the fix??

On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 at 22:18, Don VE3IDS via <ve3ids.don=[email protected]> wrote:
I seem to have found my answer. I did the Mars mod to get 60 metres. In Canada we have a little band around channel 3 as well as the 5 channels and CW as well. The original memory channels are only the 5 channels and USB only. After doing the master reset, the odd clicking noise is gone. It must have been some setting that was done in the past.?

73 Don ve3ids?

 

Remember to be careful tuning as your out of band protection is lost.

The band pass relays in the final click during tuning.? There is an earlier post from me indicating what those frequencies are

I have my 60 meters programmed into my memory in the 60's number group

73 Steve VE5SR/CIW406
 

Hi Steve,?

Thanks, yes I am aware of the out of band protection is gone. I want to be able to use the 5351.5 to 5366.5 MHz band and fixed memory locations aren't friendly to that.?

The clicking noise I was experiencing wasn't bandpass relay noise. This was if you were listening to a CW signal and not changing frequency. If you were slightly off frequency and the green receive light wasn't blinking to blue, there was no noise. If you were exactly on his frequency and the blue light was blinking to the CW note, there was a click on the leading edge of each character. It was like the AGC was too aggressive or there was noise being generated by the LED driver. A reset cleared whatever it was so it wasn't hardware related. Glad it's gone that easily! I'm enjoying the rig.?

73 Don ve3ids?


On Mon., Jun. 3, 2024, 7:50 p.m. Steve Lenaghan via , <steve.lenaghan=[email protected]> wrote:
Remember to be careful tuning as your out of band protection is lost.

The band pass relays in the final click during tuning.? There is an earlier post from me indicating what those frequencies are

I have my 60 meters programmed into my memory in the 60's number group

73 Steve VE5SR/CIW406

 

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I seem to remember that when my radio came from the factory 60m channel 5 was wrong. I used chirp to change the frequency of that channel. If that worked I suspect you could change to use the ones you're talking about.

??? Randy

On 6/4/24 00:34, Don VE3IDS via groups.io wrote:

Hi Steve,?

Thanks, yes I am aware of the out of band protection is gone. I want to be able to use the 5351.5 to 5366.5 MHz band and fixed memory locations aren't friendly to that.?

The clicking noise I was experiencing wasn't bandpass relay noise. This was if you were listening to a CW signal and not changing frequency. If you were slightly off frequency and the green receive light wasn't blinking to blue, there was no noise. If you were exactly on his frequency and the blue light was blinking to the CW note, there was a click on the leading edge of each character. It was like the AGC was too aggressive or there was noise being generated by the LED driver. A reset cleared whatever it was so it wasn't hardware related. Glad it's gone that easily! I'm enjoying the rig.?

73 Don ve3ids?


On Mon., Jun. 3, 2024, 7:50 p.m. Steve Lenaghan via , <steve.lenaghan=[email protected]> wrote:
Remember to be careful tuning as your out of band protection is lost.

The band pass relays in the final click during tuning.? There is an earlier post from me indicating what those frequencies are

I have my 60 meters programmed into my memory in the 60's number group

73 Steve VE5SR/CIW406

 

Hi Randy,?

I could add the 5 channels to memory in additional slots with CW capacity but I don't know of a way to be able to use a band not just the fixed channels with just memories. We have a narrow band available to us up here in Canada now around channel 3. It goes from 5351.5 to 5366.5 and we can use a vfo in that small band. I believe it hasn't been authorized in the USA yet.?

73 Don ve3ids?


On Mon., Jun. 3, 2024, 9:13 p.m. Randy KB0NAV via , <randy.ralphs=[email protected]> wrote:

I seem to remember that when my radio came from the factory 60m channel 5 was wrong. I used chirp to change the frequency of that channel. If that worked I suspect you could change to use the ones you're talking about.

??? Randy

On 6/4/24 00:34, Don VE3IDS via wrote:
Hi Steve,?

Thanks, yes I am aware of the out of band protection is gone. I want to be able to use the 5351.5 to 5366.5 MHz band and fixed memory locations aren't friendly to that.?

The clicking noise I was experiencing wasn't bandpass relay noise. This was if you were listening to a CW signal and not changing frequency. If you were slightly off frequency and the green receive light wasn't blinking to blue, there was no noise. If you were exactly on his frequency and the blue light was blinking to the CW note, there was a click on the leading edge of each character. It was like the AGC was too aggressive or there was noise being generated by the LED driver. A reset cleared whatever it was so it wasn't hardware related. Glad it's gone that easily! I'm enjoying the rig.?

73 Don ve3ids?


On Mon., Jun. 3, 2024, 7:50 p.m. Steve Lenaghan via , <steve.lenaghan=[email protected]> wrote:
Remember to be careful tuning as your out of band protection is lost.

The band pass relays in the final click during tuning.? There is an earlier post from me indicating what those frequencies are

I have my 60 meters programmed into my memory in the 60's number group

73 Steve VE5SR/CIW406

 

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A few years ago, I sent my FT857D back to Yaesu in the US for a repair.? While they had it, they swapped the ROM in the rig to update the 5 MHz channel frequencies to the then new FCC 5 MHz frequencies, with no extra charge.? I don't know if Yaesu still do that, or whether that's possible in Canada.

73
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On 6/3/2024 18:09, Randy KB0NAV via groups.io wrote:

I seem to remember that when my radio came from the factory 60m channel 5 was wrong. I used chirp to change the frequency of that channel. If that worked I suspect you could change to use the ones you're talking about.

??? Randy

On 6/4/24 00:34, Don VE3IDS via groups.io wrote:
Hi Steve,?

Thanks, yes I am aware of the out of band protection is gone. I want to be able to use the 5351.5 to 5366.5 MHz band and fixed memory locations aren't friendly to that.?

The clicking noise I was experiencing wasn't bandpass relay noise. This was if you were listening to a CW signal and not changing frequency. If you were slightly off frequency and the green receive light wasn't blinking to blue, there was no noise. If you were exactly on his frequency and the blue light was blinking to the CW note, there was a click on the leading edge of each character. It was like the AGC was too aggressive or there was noise being generated by the LED driver. A reset cleared whatever it was so it wasn't hardware related. Glad it's gone that easily! I'm enjoying the rig.?

73 Don ve3ids?


On Mon., Jun. 3, 2024, 7:50 p.m. Steve Lenaghan via , <steve.lenaghan=[email protected]> wrote:
Remember to be careful tuning as your out of band protection is lost.

The band pass relays in the final click during tuning.? There is an earlier post from me indicating what those frequencies are

I have my 60 meters programmed into my memory in the 60's number group

73 Steve VE5SR/CIW406

 

You can use one of the PMS memory channel pairs to restrict manual tuning between two frequencies.

Peter
 

Peter,?

That would work.?

Thanks
73 Don ve3ids?

On Wed., Jun. 5, 2024, 10:33 p.m. Peter Finch via , <peterlewisfinch=[email protected]> wrote:
You can use one of the PMS memory channel pairs to restrict manual tuning between two frequencies.

Peter

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